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By MATT [email protected]
Alaska Airlines announced Tuesday that three Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes will replace most of the Boeing 737 jets that now fly between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
The Q400s, the first turboprop planes to be operated under the Alaska Airlines name in Alaska, will increase the number of flights between the state’s two biggest cities and allow the 737s to be rerouted to new service between Anchorage and the Lower 48.
Alaska Airlines Regional Vice President Marilyn Romano said passengers won’t notice much of a difference when the company switches to the turboprop aircraft in March 2014.
“These planes are really advanced and I think passengers are going to have a very nice travel experience,” she said. “Horizon has a lot of these routes in the Lower 48. I person-ally have flown on them numerous times.”
The Q400s will seat 76 people and have a travel time that’s nearly the same as the jet. They’ll be operated by 60 Horizon Air employees who will be based out of Anchor-age but will be booked and marketed under Alaska Airlines.
By TIM [email protected]
When the ice finally dis-appeared on Quartz Lake on Sunday, a scary and depress-ing sight appeared — rotting, chalk-white fish carcasses lit-tering the shore and shallows.
It appears the Interior’s most popular sport fishery experienced a massive winter die-off that left hundreds, if not thousands, of dead rain-bow trout and arctic char in
Alaska Air to serve city mostly with turboprops
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Efforts are under way to help evacuees from the Yukon River vil-lage of Galena, which was flooded last week.
• A fundraising event is planned at Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. June 14. The
event will feature live music and a raffle. For more information, con-tact Peter Captain Jr. at 347-6679.
• The College of Rural and Community Development and the Interior-Aleutians Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks are hosting a used clothing and house-hold item sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 15 at the Harper Building,
4280 Geist Road. There also will be a barbecue. For more information, contact Leona at 474-5086 or Alli-son at 474-5017. They are looking for donations of baked goods and gently used clothing or items.
• Tanana Chiefs Conference has set up a Wells Fargo account to accept donations for Galena. See the Facebook posting by The Coun-
cil newsletter for more information (www.facebook.com/TheCouncil Newsletter).
• The Morris Thompson Cul-tural and Visitors Center this week is hosting events for elders affected by flooding. The events, which run from noon to 4 p.m. daily through Thursday, include movies, fiddle music and lunch. Given limited
space, the activities are for elders only. The center is seeking volun-teers to help and prepare food.
• Anchorage is hosting its own Galena fundraiser from noon to 4 p.m. June 8 at the BP Energy Center. For more information about that event, call Stephanie Nollner at 942-9144.
Contact the newsroom at 459-7572.
Events scheduled to help out Galena flooding evacuees
Photo courtesy Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines announced Tuesday that three Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes will replace most of the Boeing 737 jets that now fly between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Please see PLANES, Page A8
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Sam Tegoseak, of Barrow, now living in Fairbanks, signs the petition form as Dirk Nelson collects signatures for “Vote Yes! Repeal the Giveaway” to stop Gov. Sean Parnell’s Senate Bill 21 oil tax legislation Tuesday afternoon in front of the Noel Wien Public Library. “We’re doing pretty well,” Nelson said of the 1,800 signatures gathered at the spot since the petition effort began.
Long winter eyed in deaths of Quartz Lake fishADFG blames low oxygen for die-off
Photo courtesy Dean Seibold
The ice dis-solved sud-denly on Sunday at Quartz Lake revealing the carcasses of thousands of fish large and small. It has yet to be determined just what killed all the fish there.
Please see FISH, Page A8
By MATT [email protected]
Organizers behind the Fair-banks effort to repeal Gov. Sean Parnell’s oil tax reform legislation say their blue peti-tion booklets are on track to get the signatures needed to get the referendum on the 2014 ballot.
More than 3,500 signa-tures, 10 percent of voters who cast ballots in the last
election, are needed in the Fairbanks area and will count toward the more than 30,000 signatures needed statewide to repeal the bill they call “a massive giveaway.”
“In Fairbanks, it’s going pretty darn well,” said Rep. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks. “People understand the issue pretty clearly. They want to see more oil in the pipeline, and they want to see a guar-antee.”
Kawasaki is the lead on the volunteer-driven effort to collect signatures for the peti-tion; he was joined by most Democrats in voting against the measure.
He argues that the change gives away too much without guarantees of production. He said the few credits that are tied to new oil are nearly inconsequential when com-pared to the fiscal impact of eliminating progressivity on all oil, new and old.
He said more than 100 people are actively carrying petitions and gathering sig-natures.
The group held a barbecue during the weekend, where it gathered more than 100 sig-
natures. The effort has until July 13 to gather the neces-sary signatures.
It’s an effort that has been lambasted by support-ers of Senate Bill 21, which passed with the vote of every Republican lawmaker in the Interior.
Supporters point to contin-ued slumping decline under the last tax regime, ACES, and recent announcements of new investments on the North Slope.
Although SB21 support-ers acknowledge that some of the projects had been in the works regardless of the tax structure.
Fighting the oil tax law
Opponents of governor’s oil tax legislation seek to get referendum on ’14 ballot
Please see TAXES, Page A8
Alaska’s senators call for investigation into Fort Greely affairs » Page B1
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